I do not think any Sherpas died, but five climbers/guides did.
"Into Thin Air" was written by Jon Krakauer. The book recounts his personal account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died during a storm.
Into Thin Air was created in 1997.
The ISBN of Into Thin Air is 9780385494786.
They are called 'Sherpas'. They can guide climbers up the mountain and keep the route safe and open.
The non-fiction book "Into Thin Air" was written by John Krakauer in 1997. It is a personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster that occurred the year before in which eight mountain climbers died.
Thin Air - novel - was created in 1995.
Into Thin Air has approximately 66,000 words.
He payed back the Sherpas by building them a school. (He payed them back because the Sherpas helped him while climbing mount Everest)
because it is so high , the air is cool and thin.
There I was at 30,000 feet, ready to jump into thin air... when suddenly my parachute opened while I was still in the plane! Summitters relish hiking into thin air. Vanishing into the fog is like vanishing into thin air.
The air in the thermosphere is very thin because of it's high altitude.
Sherpas are people who guide other up mountains. So, typically in the mountains of Nepal, the Himalayas, etc.